Gloria Steinem Quotes

It's absolutely not acceptable for people to argue that, if we are going to do anything about climate change at all, well, the responsibility lies solely with the individual.

Don't let it happen when the time comes, that you will be blamed by the next generation because you did nothing. Don't allow yourself to just stay at the side, clap your hands, smile, and wave your as we create history. i hope you can join in creating history.

The way to change the world is through individual responsibility and taking local action in your own community.

We are in a position of financial and social power, and we could be agents of change in our society. Without pretension, I believe we could be a nice little gardener who takes care of the garden, and hopefully our neighbor will do the same. Then, maybe we'll achieve a better world.

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

There is no public out there who needs to change. It's each one of us.

What we do really affects the world. Most of us think we can't do anything, but it really isn't true.

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.

History is merciless. History doesn't care if we pound our society down a rat hole. It's up to us to make more intelligent choices about how we live!

The world's becoming a better place, and again it is up to us to make sure we're doing the right things.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

The goal of Can't Do Nothing is to ask people, what matters for you? And whatever it is, what are you doing about it? How bad does it need to get before you take action?

We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.

What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.

Everyone has to do their part, too. No one is disconnected. And everyone has to improve their skills, take care of their own health to the extent they can and contribute their time and talents to the community and country.

I like to do something good every day of my life, and I wanna leave the earth better than I found it.

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

Let the grassroots turn on the hate because that's the only thing that will make them do their duty.

We can't expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

I don't think any country is perfect. It's our responsibility to do the best we can do to change the things we don't like. I think that's part of social responsibility, and everybody is going to do that in their own way.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

If we all act together - business, governments, NGOs and citizens and, especially, the young - just imagine the good we could create.

Responsible global behaviour is ultimately an act of self-preservation of, by, and for the global beast that modern technological humanity has become.